94 
The Naud Hifory of JAMAICA. 
It grew near the Palifadoes by Port-Royal. pe icone 
Dr. Plakenet,in his Maat. p. 179. doubts if this be not the Thymeiea. can- 
dicantibus eo fericeis folsjs floribus inter folsa Phyts Tab. 318. Fig. 6. Alms, pe 
367. which ’tis plain it 1s not. | | — 
IX. Thymelea marttima erica folijs, furcalis tumidis c& tomentofis. C at Fam. 
p. 168. Tab.-803; Fig. 1. ‘Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. Pe 55+ | idol Teach 
This Treerofe to about'4 or 5 Foot high, having feveral woodyBranches 
coverd' with ‘@ fmooth; tight brown, Batk, it hath many Twigs which for 
the moff Part ate crooked, erect, and very much fwell’d, being downy and 
coverd with the remainifig Part of the Footftalks of the Leaves drop’d off, 
which are wfually reddiffh, with Wool’or Tomentum’ ofa whiti'fth Colour 
between them, they lying like Scales‘one over anothers ‘at the "Tops of the 
Twigs fand many Leaves round about, being very Mort, thick, of a dirty 
erecn Colour and like tte Leaves of Ht each, of a falcifh, ‘biting Tafte, among 
which come the Blowers; being leap and having theit Ore very deeply cut 
‘nto fourcdections, 'nfakting ‘it perraperalous, and ‘exactly like thofe-of: this 
Kind. a " hes eS 
{ foundiarnong the Rocks by the Sea Side, near Don Chriftoval’s'Cove 
not far from the Ruins of thie old Town f Sevilla, in ‘the North Side ofthis 
Tfland: 1 3nd y VITIIBIG Ji rm inf? fosicurdl DAR Non qnoleU Og 
[ quefticn not ‘bur that this agreeing fo exatly with thofe ‘defcribed 
by Chefs, ivhis thevaine pargatve QR ates eae a 8 
turin WoL fil -s¢ oa (he . TE Geers 
X. Laureola minor (ylvatica folijs ex adverfo nafcentibus baccis rubris,; Cat. 
“fam, p. 168. Raij. Hift, Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 53- 
This\Shrab “has»aStem*about the Bignefs ofones little Finger, green, 
jointed, round;fmooth, above aFoot-high, atevery halfnch’sDiftance fend- 
wig, out Leaves by Pants, one oppofite ‘to another) they ftand on Inch long 
Pootftalksjare 4 Inches long and bre and a Half broad néar the'End, where 
bidadeftand roundjoof a%dark brown 'fhining Colour, fmhooth and thick. 
Ex uli¢oFoliofém, towards the Top comes out a fasall ‘Branch fuftaining fe- 
veral,réd, ‘round Berries, chiefly confitting oPa'whire ‘Pulp. enty } 
‘Tt prows in the tighetand fhady Woods, in’ the Inland Parts’ of ‘this I- 
fland,as in’ Mountatn-River Wodds beyond® Ga araboa, ‘Colonel Boxrden’s 
Plantation, and on’ Monnt-Diablo going to the: North Side. 
XL. Cerafo affinis arbor baccifera racemo/a, fore albo pentapetalo, fruciu flaw 
mien enat kati Cat fam. 7.169. ahd Pig, 1. Ney oi : 
Denar. p. 45. Wes f en dry 
SBOE OL ed  BafhardsCherry-Tree. 
a‘tikaly, Véllow, fweeb Palp, having each a Tingle; {mall'Stofe? 
